Players: Tips for staying active outdoors throughout the winter

Tips and tricks for staying active outdoors throughout the winter

11:46 PM,
Nov. 28, 2012

Written by

Pete Colaizzo
| For the Poughkeepsie Journal

As runners, we get the question all the time in the winter: "How do you run in the cold weather? Don't your lungs freeze?!?" As local runner Wayne McDaniel said, that comment ranks right up there with the well-worn line: "You run that far? I can't even drive my car that far!"

Rest assured that science - not to mention practical experience - has proved that lungs do not actually "freeze" during the typical cold of a mid-Hudson Valley winter. Some runners, like McDaniel, actually prefer training during the coldest time of the year. "If you're sweating,'' he said, "who's cold?"